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Have to Be Technical to Outsource? Nah!

I know what you're thinking; here I go again talking about why you HAVE to outsource your datacenter and infrastructure. Not this time. In previous blogs I have talked about doctors and baseball players, etc and the ways they outsource. It hit me that everyone most likely does some sort of outsourcing every day and it is just part of our evolving society.

Think about how fast things changed from Y2K until now. So much technology; the way we listen to music, HDTV, BluRay, Hydrogen, Electric, and Hybrid automobiles, the green movement. Change is everywhere. If you look back to 1900 or even the 1950's changes were much slower and they weren't nearly as life-changing. A change to someone's daily routine back then wasn't a life changing stressful event like it can be now.

So how do we cope with all these fast changes today? Some form of outsourcing. Think about it, even going out to eat is outsourcing. Some of my single friends have never even used the kitchen equipment in their homes. They outsource their kitchens! Most use the fridge to keep the adult beverages cold but that is to drink with the Papa John's pizza they have delivered.

Ok, so now for the real reason this blog fell out of my head. I was talking to my mom yesterday and she was talking about quilting. She is a quilting nut. My whole house is buried in quilts. My wife loves them. I am pretty sure my brother's house has quite a few as well. We have a wedding quilt with pics of the wedding and signatures and quotes from people that were at the wedding. We have a "charm" quilt with 1020 or so different fabrics in it including fabric from my favorite shirt (at that time). We have too many quilts to name and I don't know what about half of them are called really. They all have "quilty" names.

So for those of you who don't know a whole lot about quilting (and I don't either) there are machine quilted quilts and there are hand quilted quilts. Machine quilted quilts are faster to finish but aren't worth as much money and can stand the test of time better. Hand quilted quilts take much longer to finish and can't stand up to as much punishment but are worth more money in the long run.

So, I have always wondered how my mom can bust out all these quilts so fast. The ones that are machine quilted always made sense. She can make them faster and they are tougher. But she gives us several that are handmade and I could never figure out where she got all this free time. I mean she is retired and sleeps till like 11am! Anyway, to make a good quilt you have to go search for all the right fabric, sew the top all together, then the bottom, and then quilt it all up nice and pretty - like toilet paper really. Batting on the inside makes it fluffy.

It takes time to do all those things and she just keeps on making them at blazing speed. So I finally figured it out yesterday when on the phone with her she mentioned she dropped 3 quilts off to be quilted. It didn't even faze me at first and then it hit me, she is cheating! I said, "You did what with the quilts?" So I learned yesterday that some of my quilts I thought my mom hand quilted, were finished by people I don't even know! I guess outsourcing is even to the point where grannies can do it to trick their grandkids! Where will it all stop!

In this fast moving age, it probably won't so don't miss the outsourcing train; it can save you some time - time you can spend with your family making quilts if you choose.

-Skinman

P.S. I wonder if I set the record for using the letter "Q" the most times in a single blog?